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Good taste is really just a kind of aesthetic vegetarianism. -Robertson Davies The New York Times: Book Review Search Article
I think the way to “solve” the problem of procrastination is to let delight pull you instead of making a to-do list push you. Work on an ambitious project you really enjoy, and sail as close to the wind as you can, and you’ll leave the right things undone. Good and Bad Procrastination
On specifying your terms
One of the books I read over the Christmas vacation was Writing the Mind Alive, which one Amazon reviewer tags as the book to go to after freewriting has taken you as far it can. I used to write morning pages and still enjoy journaling, but I’m always open to new approaches and methods (the …
Growing up Native in Alaska is a collection of oral histories compiled for The CIRI Foundation. In my story in the book, I describe a time in the 1990s when a group of Doyon shareholders wanted to liquidate half the Native corporation’s assets. “What struck me was [this position] comes from a culture where leaders …
What I’m doing on my Christmas vacation
Image via Wikipedia Packed about 15 books (about half of them small cartooning or graphic novel-type books), of which I expect I’ll read 1.5. Right now am knocking back about 40 pgs/day of Lewis Shiner’s Black and White, which makes excellent use of its Durham background and locale. Was up till about 2 am the …
Spring 2009 – Independent Study
Image via Wikipedia I was not terribly interested in the spring courses being offered, and The Ineluctable Cassidy suggested an independent study might be an option. I poked around and discovered that another friend, Carolyn, could supervise it. Because Carolyn is a doc student of some years standing in the school’s digital curation discipline, knowledgeable, …
Status of the Ph.D.
I interviewed with two prospective references at SILS, who agreed to write letters of reference (still waiting on the third to write hers and the application is done). They were good, tough interviews that asked the simple questions–Why do you want to do this? Why do you want to do it here? What do you …
2008 Fall Semester Wrap-up
Image by Angela Sabas via Flickr Follow-up to my fall break posting. I spent the last two days deleting 1000+ emails from my Gmail “read this later” pile, deleted all unneeded emails from my fall classes, and deleted from my hard drive all the working files and drafts I used to create my various homework …
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